Now that JJJr is out of wherever he was rehabbing from “exhaustion”, perhaps his bed could be used for Congressman Johnson, who has some serious issues that should be dealt with before he hurts himself or others.

I am beginning to think that I should be very offended on a daily basis because of the ignorance evidenced in people’s inappropriate choice of words. Unfortunately, I am unable to find the current list of what is now considered offensive.

It’s rather funny offensive that the WaPo doesn’t evidence current sensitivities. Surely an apology is in order, no?

Turns out, the language one uses in speeches on the House floor is no small matter. Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) today apologized for using what he terms “the m-word” during a speech the previous evening.

This guy is the poster-child for my new campaign: Get the Cameras out of Congress Now!

What purpose could a congressman disserting on midgets possible serve in a functioning Republic? Why does a record even exist of citizen-politician using the “M-word” in the citizens’ halls? I mean, really?!

We need to get the cameras off the floor of the Congress because they illicit idiotic displays that are then broadcast to the ranters’ constituents at home in order to garner votes. In effect, they render the moments between productive debate and votes into crass, quasi-official electioneering theater at great cost to the Republic.

Every day that these idiots air idocy in the Peoples’ legislature is another day that they degrade the body’s integrity in the eyes of the public. Cloward Piven’s crib-sheet says that calls to “limit” congressmens’ terms, such as crony-capitalists like Warren Buffet are making, will soon follow.

Hank has always been one of the dimmest bulbs in the Congressional firmament. While it was mighty small of him to disparage little people, it doesn’t hold a candle to his calling Thomas Jefferson a terrorist.

This guy is the poster-child for my new campaign: Get the Cameras out of Congress Now!

I disagree. Keep the cameras rolling 24/7 on Congress, play it on nightly news and let the masses have undeniable evidence of how clueless our elected officials are. That way, thos e low information voters and the apathetic no voters may be informed first-hand, so muc so that they become participants in the electoral system. It certainly can’t get any worse.

It would also show the immense waste of time and energy spent on nonsense but fully supported by the taxpayers’ dime.

This is hilarious. But don’t expect to see Kenan Thompson doing Hank on SNL like he did Herman Cain, making lewd remarks about women to a Newt Gingrich impersonator.

What struck me most about this is the presence of Jan Schakowsky, who is selective in her concern about people being offended. Famously piqued after Rush Limbaugh’s satirical yet unwise references to the ridiculous Sandra Fluke as “a slut” and “a prostitute,” Jan wasn’t all that concerned when Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a “c–t” and a “stupid t–t.” Given an opportunity to say million dollar BHO PAC donor Maher’s remarks were just as beyond the pale, she stayed mum for two minutes and fourteen seconds before she walked away from a photojournalist.

She was my Congresscritter a time, L.N. She replaced Sidney Yates. Her district is gerrymandered the same way worse than Johnson’s is. She was hoping to replace Obama in the Senate, but the Machine knew she would not survive state-wide reelection.

When you zero in on an enemy, you sure like to throw the kitchen sink.

I could be wrong, but I think that Sandra Fluke’s name was not super well known at the time that Rush chastised her for her testimony before Congress.

His comments about her caught fire because so many people (especially on the Democrat side of the aisle) listen to his program.
In other words, Rush didn’t comment on Fluke in order to improve his ratings and popularity, rather, Fluke became better known due to Rush commenting on her.

What is your obsession with Rush’s former addiction to Oxycontin ? He had a very difficult back surgery that elicited his doctor to prescribe Oxycontin, and he ended up getting dependent upon the drug.

That doesn’t make him a bad person. He’s a really nice guy. Most people from all over the political spectrum who happen to know him, really like him. Elton John (yes, that Elton John) thinks the world of him.

You’re correct that the Oxycontin caused damage to his hearing. He now uses a cochlear implant and a hearing aid.

I’m sure he’s a lovely person he’s just not the future he’s an old fart like the Huckabee and the Bill Bennett and the Roger Ailes and the Meghan’s coward daddy and the Mitch McConnell and the Bill O’Reilly but not the Sean Hannity or the Bobby Jindal

“…too many whites are getting away with drug use… The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we’re not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too.”–Limbaugh

When she was in the seventh grade, my younger daughter had an extremely politically correct English teacher. Their class was reading a book in which a main character is a dwarf, and some of the book’s plot involved the character’s dwarfism. The book referred to that character as a “dwarf,” and that’s the word my daughter used in the class discussion.

“Little people!” the teacher interrupted her. “‘Dwarf’ is a bigoted term, and you must never use it! Only horrible people would ever use such a word.”

I think the teacher was probably confused, and was thinking of the word “midget,” which neither my daughter nor anyone else in the class had used.

“No, it’s not bigoted,” insisted my daughter, “and the medical term to describe the condition is ‘dwarfism,’ not ‘little people-ism’!”

For this insubordination — the crime of knowing more than her teacher, and revealing it — the teacher compelled my daughter to stand in a hallway corner for the better part of an hour.

I raised hell with the teacher and administrators. I submitted copious documentation, including links to websites run by dwarves in which they referred to themselves very proudly as “dwarves.” Indeed, I submitted materials confirming that there is a vocal plurality among dwarves who think, reasonably enough, that the clinically accurate term “dwarf” is much preferable to the patronizing “Little People”; their argument is that “You might as well call us ‘Munchkins’ as ‘Little People.’”

Eventually the teacher was forced to make a non-apology apology to my daughter, and to publicly correct himself to the entire classroom that had witnessed his own ignorant and bigoted persecution of my daughter. But of course there were no permanent consequences of any sort, and fortunately, my daughter’s performance in English was so strong that even a vengeful and petty teacher couldn’t find a good excuse to cut her grade without that being obvious retaliation.

I don’t believe he’s ever actually said that, and at the time it apparently was not quite actually attributed to it by his doctors.

But it makes sense. It makes even more sense if the black market drugs he was getting did that to him – and maybe it wasn’t only oxycontin.

My father’s hearing got further damaged – beyond what the typhus did, and later the airplane he sat in in 1951 – by some sort of vitamin.

First the doctor gave some vitamin that improved his hearing and then he gave him something else that made it worse, and he kept on insisting it would help. (as I understand the story)

That was about 1954. He had nerve deafness.

It didn’t proceed to the end, like I guess it did with Rush Limbaugh.

[It got somewhat worse after (I think his first) surgery in 1994 to the point where he could not use the telephone at all intelligibly. I guess you could compare that to post-polio syndrome. (paralysis coming back because there's less that you can afford to lose]

Anyway, I suspect it may have been something Rush Limbaugh was taking that caused his deafness, but not necessarily oxycontin. Otherwise it should be more common.

I’ll go further. I have always suspected some people who wanted him off the air did that to him. They gave him something.

And I haven’t heard anything that would rule that out.

He now uses a cochlear implant

The only bionic talk radio show host he called himself once.

and a hearing aid.

Would he benefit from a hearing aid? He has a cochlear implant in one ear. When he doesn’t want to be bothered he turns it off.

He can’t hear music, and can’t learn any new songs (or so we were told) He seems to be able to mimic voices that he probably didn’t hear before 2001. But maybe his music repertoire is strictly Twentieth Century.

He can’t distinguish between multiple voices. The hearing is somewhat crude with a cochlear implant. Limbaugh said it works with some people, not so good with others. The brain adjusts and interprets the sound.

When Rush Limbaugh watches TV he uses the (slightly inaccurate and mildly politically biased) closed captioning. I don’t know if he knows it is biased. On the radio show, he manages without it being typed, although he originally hired the lady (Diane?) who does his transcripts for the radio show. After a couple of month , he got his cochlear implant. Now he uses them to keep the record straight. It was bad for him when he had no hearing at all, and he says he was told the voices of people who have no hearing at all get bad after a while. Loud, incoherent.

Rush’s family is several generations deep in Cape Girardeau, Missouri—he’s not Canadian.

Maybe you should take some pain killers to deal with that aggravated nerve of yours that flares up every time Rush’s name is mentioned.
You harbor so much anger toward him.
He got addicted to oxycontin—but that doesn’t make him a bad person.

NK, you’re imagining things, as usual. Limbaugh has never claimed to be Canadian. And he has not been convicted of any crime. The crime he was charged with is so ridiculous that to the best of my knowledge nobody has ever been convicted of it, indeed as far as I know nobody but Limbaugh has ever been charged with it, and that charge was dropped. He has denied all wrongdoing, and I know of no evidence to the contrary; do you?

All this crap “he” spouts on the radio is a large production team and a computer-generated voice.

What on earth are you talking about? He’s deaf, not dumb! His voice is his own, and his words are his own.

And Limb Bough’s (sic) “cochlear implant” can only work through a computer. His show is typed to him.

You really are full of sh*t. Can you really not know what a cochlear implant is?! It lets him hear; that’s what they do. It’s not perfect, but nothing has to be typed to him! Really, what on earth are you talking about?

That’s a pity. It would have served his fat, worthless ass right if he’d gotten a dose of the medicine he spent so many years ardently prescribing for other dopers.

Well, yeah, in that sense it would have served him right, but the distinction he draws is that they are breaking an actual law. They couldn’t prove he had broken the law (he denies it to this day), and the law he was charged with breaking is so ridiculous that as far as I know nobody else has ever been charged with it, and it would be difficult to convince a jury that it’s a real law.

While you and I are obsessing over the fine mind belonging to Kimberly Guilfoyle, our buddy nk will be obsessing over Rush Limbaugh’s Canadian birth certificate.
There may be a joke there about nk and Canadian Bacon, but I prefer to focus on Ms. Guilfoyle as “Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco Treat.”

Speaking of clowns, how ’bout that Pete Carroll fake punt in the 4th quarter when he was ahead by 30 points ?!

It is big boy football, they all get paid, and it is Buffalo’s responsibility to stop them, but I just remember how Pete blew up at Jim Harbaugh when Harbaugh’s Stanford team went for a two point conversion in the 4th quarter of a game where Stanford was only ahead by 27 points.

or instance, he has openly said that if tobacco should ever be banned he would have to stop smoking, and he’d be OK with that.

I missed that, but I know he smokes, or smoked, e-cigarettes, and delighted in fooling some anti-smoking vigilantes. There’s no slipstream smoke there, and no cancer causing tar, just heart disease causing nicotine. (and maybe all the other non-lung problems)